I've never seen this style in Python code before, but [PEP 257](http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0257/) does say to "[i]nsert a blank line before and after all docstrings (one-line or multi-line) that document a class." I'm okay with it, although it looks odd when you have this blank line, and also have the first `"""` on its own line. There's an example of this with the `CompatID3` class.